Animal mount or support for carousels.



R. & J. LUSSE.

ANIMAL MOUNT 0B. SUPPORT FOR CAROUSELS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3, 1914.

Patented Sept. 29, 1914.

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R. & J. LUSSB.

ANIMAL MOUNT-0R. SUPPORT FOR CAROUSELS.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3.1914.

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ROBERT LUSSE AND JOSEPH LUSSE, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ANIMAL MOUNT 0R SUPPORT FOR CAROUSELS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patentd Sept. 29, 1914.

Application filed January 3, 1914. Serial No. 810,153.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ROBERT .LUSSE and J osnrn Lussn, citizens of the United States,

and residents of Philadelphia, PennsyL. Vania, have invented certain Improvements in Animal Mounts or Supports for Carousels, of which the following is a specification.

The object of our invention is to provide an animal support for carousels that will be at once simple, reliable and easily operated.

The device is more particularly applicable for use with knock-down structures in asmuch as its character is such as to greatly facilitate the dismantling of the carousel when moving from point to point, and at the same time it is most easily set up.

These and other features of our invention are more fully described hereinafter, reference being had to the accompanylng drawings, in which:

Figure 1, is a view in elevation of our improved animal support shown as connected between one of the crank shafts and the floor of the carousel; the animal being indicated by dotted lines; Fig. 2, is an enlarged View of the lower portion of the sup port and its connection with the floor of the carousel; Fig. 3, is an elevation, partly, in.

section, of the'upper portion of the support and a suspended bracket or socket by which it is connected with a crank shaft;-

Fig. 4:, is a sectional view on the line 44, Fig. 8; Fig. 5, is a sectlonal plan v1ew on the line 5-5, Fig. 3, and Fig. 6, is an inverted shown in Fig.2. I t

In the drawings, 1 represents a portion of the upper framing of a carousel, carrying a bearing 2 of the usual type for a crank shaft 3, while l represents the floor of the carousel. The crank shaft carries at its outer end a box 5, forming a bearing, from which a socket or bracket 6 depends, and the floor of the carousel carries a socket plate 7 which may be secured in place by any suitable means, screws- 7 a for instance. Between the suspended socket and the socket plate the mounts for the animals are placed, and these mounts comprise upper and lower telescoping tubular rods 8 and 9, which may slide with relation to each other as the crank shaft is turned. At the lower portion of the rods, below the animal, an enlarged tube 10 incloses the lower ends of the rods and forms a dress guard to prevent the clothing of the plan view of the socket connection users coming in contact with the oily surface of the rods, since it is necessary-to keep the sliding portions of the same properly lubricate The upper end of the rod 8 carriesoppo site'ly projecting ears or lugs 12 which may be formed by a pin passed through the bar, and such lugs are adapted to seats 13 formed in said socket. This socket is provided with grooves 14 at right angles to the seats, and when. the parts are to be attached, the end of the rod is passed up through the socket with the lugs in the grooves, and then, when clear of said grooves, turned so as to permit said lugs to drop in the seats, and the weight of therod will hold it against accidental removal. This-rod is preferably provided with a suitable support 15, for the animal. The rod 8 slides over the lower rod 9 of the support, and the latter rod is provided at its lower end with lugs 20,

formed by a pin passing through the rod, for engagement with seats 21 on the underside of the socket plate. Like the upper de pending socket, the socket plate is provided with grooves 22 permitting passage of the lugs below the plate after the rod is introduccd into the central opening of the same, and then the rod is turned so as to permit the lugs to engage the seats. To holdthe lugs to their seats, a spring 25 is provided,

and this spring is interposed between a collar 26 carried by the rod 9 and a cup 2? surrounding said rod and retained in place by the pin forming the lugs 20; which cup may have a rounded lower surface 28 to engage a rounded seat 29 in the socket. The spring serves to hold thecup to its seat and prevent accidental turning or dislodgment of the lugs carried by the rod from their seats.

The engagement of the lower end of the cup 27 with the socket provides practically a all and socket joint, readily permitting such lateral movement of the telescoping supporting rod as will be occasioned by the throw of the crank. If desired, a spring may be provided in the upper depending socket 6 to hold thelugs 12 to their seats, although this is not essential.

It will be readily, understood that with this construction there is no necessity of disvention is quite simple and most expedi- 3. The combination of a pair of telescoplng rods one of which is longitudinally mov-.

tiously effected, while dismantling of the same is also readily and quickly accomplished.

In assembly, the two telescoping rods 8. and 9 are slipped together with the'animalin proper position; then the upper rod has its upper end properly connected with the depending socket 6 in'the manner described, and then the end of the lower rod is forced into the opening of the floor socket against the action-of the spring and connected in the mannerindicated, or,if desired, thelower connection may be made first.

'While theinventionhas been described as means locking the rod thereto and held in place by said spring, and a movable connection for the upper end of said rod.

2. The combination of a longitudinally extensible rod, lugs at each end of said rod,

a socket for the lower end of the rod having means for engaging the' lugs to lock the rod thereto, and a niovable connection for the upper end of said rod engaging the lugs of the same.

able with respect to the other, a movable connection for the upper rod, a spring carried at the bottom of the lowerrod, a socket- 540 ,receiving the lower rod, and means held in place by said spring for locking the rod to said socket.

4. The combination of a pair of telescoping rods one of which is longitudinally moviable with respect to the other, lugs carried by said rods at the outer terminals of the same, a movable connection engaging the lugs at the upper end of the upper rod, a socket receiving the lower end of the lower rod and having provision for engaging the lugs of the same, and means for locking the red thereto. I I

5. The combination of a supporting rod carrying a spring at the bottom, retaining means for said bottom end, a depending socket, and lugs carried by said rod, said socket having grooves for the passage of the lugs through the socket and seats for the reception o'f said lugs upon giving the rod a quarter turn, said spring serving to hold saidlugs'in their seats.

' 6. The combination of a supporting rod carrying a spring at the bottom, retaining means for said bottom end, a crank-shaft, a depending socket carried by said crankshaft, and lugs carried by said rod, said socket having grooves for the passage of the lugs through the socket and seats for the reception of said lugs upon giving the rod a quarter turn, said spring serving to hold said lugs in their seats.

7. The combination of a supporting rod carrying a spring at the bottom, a depending socket, lugs carried by said rod, said socket having grooves for the passage of thelugs through the socket and seats for the reception of said lu s upon giving the rod a quarter turn, and a connection for the lower end of said rod, said spring serving to hold said lugs in their seats.

8. The combination of a supporting rod carrying a spring at the bottom, a crankshaft, a depemling socket carried by said crank-shaft, lugs carried by said rod, said socket having grooves for the passage of the lugs through the socket and seats for the reception of said lugs upon giving the rod a quarter turn, and a yielding connection for the lowerend of said rod, said spring serving to hold said lugs in their seats.

9. The combination of a rod carrying a spring at the bottom, a socket, a plurality of seats carried by said socket, the latter having grooves at right angles to said seats,

and lugs carried by the rod and adapted to be inserted in said socket and turned for engagement with the seats, said spring serving to hold the lugs to their seats.

10. The combination of a red, a socket, a plurality of seats carried by said socket, the latter having grooves at right angles to said seats, lugs carried by the rod and adapted to be inserted in said socket and turned for engagement with the seats, and a springactuated'membcr for engagement with one side of the socket whereby the lugs may be held to their seats.

11. The combination of a pair of telescoping rods, sockets, seats carried by said sockets, lugs carried by each of the rods for engagement with said socket seats, and a spring-actuated member for engagement with one of the sockets whereby the lugs engaging the same will be held to their seats.

12. The combination of a pair of telescoping rods, sockets, seats carried by said sockets, the latter having grooves at right angles to said seats, lugs carried by each of the rods and adapted to be inserted in said socket and turned for engagement with the seats, and a spring-actuated member for on gagement with one of the sockets whereby the lugs engaging the same will be held to their seats.

13. In a carousel, the combination of a pair of upper and lower telescoping rods, a suspended socket for the upper end of one of said rods, a crank-shaft carrying said socket, said socket having seats, said upper rod having lugs arranged to rest in the seats, a

said socket having seats, lugs carried by the lower socket plate carried by the floor of the carousel and having seats, lugs carried by the lower rod adapted to said seats, and a spring-actuated member for engagement with the socket for retaining said latter lugs to their seats.

14. In a carousel, the combination of a pair of upper and lower telescoping rods, a suspended socket for the upper end of one of said rods, a crank shaft carrying said socket, said socket having grooves and seats at right angles to the grooves, said upper rod having lugs arranged to enter the socket via the grooves and be turned to rest in the seats, a lower socket plate carried by the floor of the carousel and having g-ooves and seats at right angles to said grooves, lugs carried by the lower rod adapted to said seats, and a spring-actuated member for engagement with the socket for retaining said latter lugs to their seats.

15. In a carousel having a floor and a crank-shaft, the combination of an animal supporting rod, a depending socket carried by the crank-shaft, lugs carried by the upper end of said rod, said socket having grooves for the passage of the lugs through the socket and seats for the reception of said lugs upon giving the rod a quarter turn, and a connection for the lower end of the rod carried by the floor.

16. In a carousel having a floor and a crank-shaft, the combination of a support ing rod, a depending socket carried by said crank-shaft, lugs carried by both ends of said rod, said depending socket having grooves for the passage 01": the lugs through the socket and seats for the reception of said lugs upon giving the rod a quarter turn, and a socket carried by the floor in which the lugs carried by the lower endof the rod are seated.

17. In a carousel having a floor and an overhead crank-shaft, the combination of a pair of upper and lower telescoping rods forming an animal support, a suspended socket for the upper end of said support, a bearing carried by said socket, said crankshaft being adapted to said bearing and upper end of said support and arranged to rest in said seats, a socket plate carried by the floor of the carousel and having seats, lugs carried by-the lower end of said support and adapted to said seats, and a springactuated member for engagement with the socket for retaining said latter lugs to their seats.

18. In a carousel having a floor and an overhead crank-shaft, the combination of a pair of upperand lower telescoping rods forming an animal support, a suspended socket for the upper end of said support, a bearin carried by said socket, said crankshaft being adapted to said bearing and said socket having grooves and seats at right angles to the grooves, lugs carried by the upper end of said support and arranged to enter the socket via the grooves and be turned to rest in the seats, a socket plate carried by the floor of the carousel and having grooves and seats at right angles to said grooves, lugs carried by the lower end of said support and adapted to said seats after passage through said grooves, and a spring-actuated member for engagement with the socket for retaining said latter lugs to their seats.

19. In a carousel, a bearing rod carrying a spring at the bottom, a pin projecting from opposite sides at the bottom, and a base piece to receive the rod and havin alternating cuts to permit the passage of the pins and recesses to receive and hold the pms.

20. In a carousel, a springpressed bearing rod, a metal base piece having a central opening to receive the rod, pins on the rod, cuts in the base piece to ermit the passage of the pins, and recesses 1n the base piece to receive the pins.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT LUSSE. JOSEPH LUSS E.

Witnesses:

FRED E. SCHMIDT, Roscoe G. SCHMIDT.

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